Kate ter Horst

Kate ter Horst (6 July 1906-21 February 1992) was a Dutch housewife and mother who tended to wounded and dying Allied troops during Operation Market Garden in 1944. She was nicknamed "the Angel of Arnhem" by her British patients.

Biography
Kate ter Horst was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands on 6 July 1906, and she married a lawyer from Rotterdam and had six children with him. The family lived in an elegant countryside home in Oosterbeek, and World War II was brought to the family's home in 1944 during the Battle of Arnhem. Captain Graeme Warrack and Doctor Jan Spaander convinced Ter Horst to turn her home into an overflow hospital for wounded and dying British Army troops during Operation Market Garden, and she prayed that the British soldiers would die at peace in their sleep, knowing that many of them would not survive due to a lack of medical equipment. She tended to about 250 wounded paratroopers, and she read the Bible to dying troops. In 1947, after the war's end, her eldest son was killed by a leftover anti-tank mine along the Rhine River, and she died after she was hit by a car outside of her home in 1992.